Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [art] " in BNC.
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1 | You 'll guess what happened when I say that I am now commanding the Company — and in the line I had a seraphic boy-lance-corporal as my sergeant-major . |
2 | I had a feeling it would be for the best , I said , when I stopped on the hard shoulder that day . |
3 | I 'm just glad I had a . |
4 | ‘ One day he returned home to Chamalières and said I had a job with Michel and Pierre for £1.50 a month . |
5 | I had a brilliant idea . |
6 | Bored and lonely , yes , but I had a reasonably pleasant time of things all the same . |
7 | Now that the deed was done , I had a chance to reflect on what was likely to happen . |
8 | She disappeared out the back again and Katrina and I had a blitz on the cleaning , finishing up behind the counter . |
9 | I had a furtive look round then I went in and settled myself down . |
10 | ‘ There was really no need — I realised I had a sweet and cheeses , you must have been starving . ’ |
11 | Wish I had a primrose-yellow |
12 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |
13 | Quite a come-down from the two-page list of duties required of me when I had a real job . |
14 | I had a hard day . |
15 | The English boy showed the others all the implements and products I had collected for cleaning and disinfecting , telling them I had a mania for cleanliness , and I 'd once decided to wash all his clothes and he 'd had to stay indoors the whole day . |
16 | He asked if I had a caftan he could borrow . |
17 | I had a mental picture of the conductor on the red London bus talking to Hammouda the village postman , of the English boy 's friends playing with Khadija 's grandson , especially Margaret , whose hair reminded me of the coloured feather duster Khadija 's grandson had pleaded for everytime he saw it in the market , thinking that it was a toy or a bird . |
18 | I had a similar problem when I wanted to rout a decorative edge around small components . |
19 | ‘ I 'm a Muslim fundamentalist , but if I had a knife and I saw Rushdie I would n't kill him , I 'd talk to him . |
20 | ‘ I was going as carefully as I could because I had a 25-second cushion over Berger so I was able to slow down a bit and the pain eased . |
21 | I had a husband who was pretending that I did not have cancer , and a mother who tried to inspire me by showing me pictures of Page Three girls under banner headlines of ‘ How I conquered cancer ’ . |
22 | I had a second X-ray on my injury last week and it showed that the crack had healed . |
23 | In August I had a job , now I am on a shortlist . |
24 | Boy , I had a thirst . |
25 | ‘ They awarded me a seat behind a pillar for this French farce , but foolishly I moved to a place where I had a full view of the stage . |
26 | They said I had a white voice . |
27 | ‘ I had a headache and also an injured back after falling on court . |
28 | ‘ It was as if I had a vast chip on my shoulder . |
29 | ‘ I felt numb from the neck upwards , which is the ideal way to play this game , ’ he said , ‘ and I had a little lesson yesterday from my friend David Jones . ’ |
30 | Nevertheless , she kept returning to the nest , and one morning I had a sudden feeling that she was about to hatch something , after all . |